Archive for June, 2023
Friday, June 30th, 2023
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Topped off by a curious ‘coup’ attempt in Russia, June has been a fascinating month with new geopolitical economic developments, twists and turns on many fronts: As US President Biden wooed, wined and dined India’s Prime Minister Modi (who was once refused a visa to America), France’s Macron sought an invite to the […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Banking crisis is not a sudden problem for the country. It has been a growing problem and the superannuation management has associated with the banking crisis. The banking crisis created because lack of capital in the system, when the bank management has been ignoring capital requirement as the bank’s ability to stay […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar (with courtesy and acknowledgements to Colombo Page News Desk) A pointer towards those sources especially certain Tamil Organizations who from time continue to insist that Sri Lanka’s history has no authentication relative to the Sinhala Race has surfaced.They have often attributed the history of Sri Lanka to myth and folklore towards […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් මන්නාරම් දිස්ත්රික්කය අතීතයේදී හැඳින්වූයේ මන්නාරමය කරඹවලානය හා නෙල්ලිවලානය යනුවෙනි.දහතුන්වන සියවසේ ලියැවුණා යැයි සළකන කඩයිම් පොත් වල මේ බැව් සඳහන්ය. ඊට අමතරව මඩු පෙදෙස මඩුවල්ලියා රට වශයෙන්ද දක්වා ඇත.මෙම පෙදෙස පැරණි පිහිටි රටට අයත් වැදගත් ඓතිහාසික ප්රදේශයකි. මෙම පෙදෙස පිහිටි රටින් වෙන්කොට මන්නාරම් නමින් වූ දිස්ත්රික්කයට එක් කරන ලද්දේ ඉංග්රීසීන් විසිනි. එයට හේතුව […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. Treasury bills (T-bills) and Treasury bonds are both types of debt securities issued by the government to finance its operations and manage its cash flow. However, there are several significant differences between the two: Maturity: Treasury bills have a maturity of one year or less, typically ranging from a few days to […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Dilrook Kannangara බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථාන පිළිසකර කිරීමට එරෙහිව දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයේ මන්ත්රීවරු සහ අනෙකුත් දෙමළ පුද්ගලයන් කල්ලි ගැසී ඇත. ඔවුන්ගේ ක්රියාකාරකම් රටේ නීතියට සහ සංහිඳියාවට පටහැනි වෙතත් ඔවුන්ට විරුද්ධව කිසිම දඬුවමක් ක්රියාත්මක නොවීම රටේම කරුමයකි. දෙමළ ත්රස්තවාදීන් පවා අත නොතැබූ කුරුන්දි බෞද්ධ විහාරයේ නටබුන් වැනසීමට තැත්කිරීම සාපරාධී වරදකි. මෙම බෞද්ධ විරෝධයට වක්රාකාරයෙන් දායක වන පිළිලයකුත් සිටියි. […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. භාණ්ඩාගාර බිල්පත් (T-බිල්පත්) සහ භාණ්ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර යනු රජය විසින් සිය මෙහෙයුම් සඳහා මූල්යකරණය සහ මුදල් ප්රවාහය කළමනාකරණය කිරීම සඳහා නිකුත් කරන ලද ණය සුරැකුම්පත් වර්ග දෙකකි. කෙසේ වෙතත්, දෙක අතර සැලකිය යුතු වෙනස්කම් කිහිපයක් තිබේ: කල්පිරීම: භාණ්ඩාගාර බිල්පත් වල කල්පිරීම වසරක් හෝ ඊට අඩු කාලයක් ඇත, සාමාන්යයෙන් දින කිහිපයක සිට සති 52 […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Dinesh Gunawardena Prime Minister Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka The cooperative movement, which originated in Europe in the 19th century, was introduced to Sri Lanka in 1906. The Sri Lankan people, with their past precedents of thrift and mutual help that transformed their human qualities into a strong program procedure, easily adapted to the […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන (පා.ම) අග්රාමාත්ය ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදි ජනරජය දහනව වන සියවසේ යුරෝපයේ බිහි වූ සමුපකාර ව්යපාරය 1906 දී ශ්රී ලංකාවට හඳුන්වා දුනි. සකසුරුවම හා සම උපකාරය පිළිබඳ අතීත පුර්වාදර්ශයන් ඇති ශ්රී ලාංකිකයා මිනිස් ගුණාංග ශක්තිමත් වැඩපිළිවෙළකට පරිවර්තනය කොට එම සමුපකාර ව්යාපාරයට අනුගත විය. එවක් පටන් ජනතාව සවිබල ගන්වමින් ග්රාමීය ආර්ථිකය නැංවීමට සමුපකාර ව්යාපාරයට හැකි […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය බහුකාර්ය සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අධ්යාපන පෙරපුහුණු අභ්යාසලාභී කාල පරිච්ඡේදය සම්පූර්ණ කළ සංවර්ධන සහායකයින් කාර්යාල සේවයට බඳවා ගැනීමේ පත්වීම් ප්රදානය සහ එක්දින පුහුණු සැසිය ආරම්භය අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් 2023.06.30 දින ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශයේ දී සිදු කෙරිණී.මෙහිදී අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්රාමාත්යවරයා –මහජන සේවය, අභියෝග රැසක් හරහා ගමන් කරන්නේ. ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මේ […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය. ජර්මානු-ලංකා දේශගුණ තාක්ෂණ ආයතනය නුදුරේදීම ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ දේශගුණ තාක්ෂණ පුහුණු ආයතනයක් පිහිටුවීමට සැලසුම් කරයි. ජර්මනියේ සන් ෆාමින් ගෘප් ඒජී (SunFarming Group AG) හි සභාපති පීටර් ෂ්රම්ගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් යෝජිත ආයතනයේ කණ්ඩායමක් අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන සමඟ මේ පිළිබඳව සවිස්තරාත්මකව සාකච්ඡා කරන ලදී. ජර්මානු-ලංකා දේශගුණ තාක්ෂණ ආයතනය පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්තිය, නවීන කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය සහ විද්යුත් සංචලනය […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Colombo, June 30: In the last few days there were hectic activities on Sri Lanka’s foreign relations front. They included President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to Paris and London, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s meetings with the Romanian State Minister for Foreign Affairs as well as with the envoys of two regional powers […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
By Feizal Samath Courtesy TTG Asia Sri Lanka’s decision to enact a compulsory minimum rate policy for Colombo hotels has led to a row between hoteliers and travel agents in the country. Set for implementation from August 1 this year, the policy requires five-star hotels to charge at least US$130 per room, excluding taxes; four-star at […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
By Sanath Nanayakkare Courtesy The Island Banks, which pay taxes over 50%, least affected If the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) and other pension funds did not wish to participate in the proposed domestic debt restructuring process, there will be an application of higher annual income tax of 30%, Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has approved an overall 14.2 per cent of electricity tariff reduction from tomorrow (July 01), subject to conditions, the PUCSL Chairman said. The category with consumption of less than 30 units will be reduced by 65% of the cost. Consumers that come under […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Finance (COPF) has given its approval for the proposed Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) program. Chaired by MP Dr. Harsha de Silva, the COPF met today for the third consecutive day for constructive talks on the domestic debt restructuring strategy. During its discussions on the Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) plan […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s headline inflation, as measured by the Year-on-Year (Y-o-Y) change in the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI), eased to 12.0% in June 2023, compared to the previous month. The CCPI-based inflation was calculated as 25.2% for the month of May 2023. According to the latest report issued by the Department of Census […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena says that despite the Western countries continuing to smear the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a debt trap,” China is focusing on its own development path by ‘moving forward step by step’ while helping other countries to create success stories of their own. Joining a discussion with the […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed confidence that Sri Lanka would overcome its bankruptcy status by this September. He has also called for collective efforts supporting the government’s ongoing initiatives, particularly the Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) plan. The Head of State made these remarks addressing the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Sri Lanka […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS Kurundavashoka Monastery area was declared a protected archaeological site by Gazette number 7981 published on May 12th 1933. On 16th August 2013, this are area was again declared a protected archaeological site. The Department of Archaeology started conservation work at Kurundi in September 2018. On 4 September 2018 when we first commenced work, […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ලංකාවේ ලොකුම සල්ලි බෙදන ව්යාපෘතිය, ජනසවිය ලෙස ඇරඹී සමෘද්ධිය නමින් දේශපාලනීකරණය වූවේය. සැබෑ දිළින්දන්ට සහන මුදල වැඩි කර නුසුදුස්සන් ඉවත් කිරීමට ගනු ලබන සෑම උත්සාහයකට නැවත නැවත විරෝධය පළ විය. අසාර්ථක විය. ජූනි මාසයේ සිට රු. 8,500 සහ රු. 15,000 ක දිළිඳු සහන දීමනාව ලබන පිරිස ලක්ෂ 12 කි. එය අද ලැබෙන […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි මේ දිනවල කරලියේ ඇති මාතෘකාව වන්නේ “දේශීය ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගත කිරීමයි” මේ තුලින් සිදු කිරීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වන්නේ රජයේ දේශීය ණය බර අඩුකිරීම හෝ ඒවා ගෙවීමට සඳහා සහන කාලයක් ලබාගැනීම යයි අපට අනුමාන කිරීමට සිදුව තිබේ. ශ්රී ලංකා රජය විදේශයන්ටත් ණය, දේශීය වශයෙන් මෙරට ජනතාවටත් ණයබරිත රාජ්යකි. මේ ණය බරිත රාජ්යට මෙරට ජනතාවගේ ශුභ […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical EngineersLeading Engineer of the World 2006, UK Authority Award The author, engineer (A) joined a thermal power station as a Senior Engineer in Sept 1998. The station had a combination of thermal, gas […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Courtesy Aljazeera Central bank of crisis-hit country outlines measures to restructure local debt as part of efforts to meet conditions of IMF bailout. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has unveiled a far-reaching domestic debt restructuring plan aimed at restoring stability in the crisis-hit country. The move on Thursday comes as the government tries […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
By Yin Yeping Courtesy Global Times China has invested a lot in Sri Lanka in recent years and Sri Lanka looks forward to expanding the mutually beneficial partnership, Ali Sabry, Sri Lanka’s minister of foreign affairs, told the media during his visit to China. Speaking at a press briefing at the Sri Lankan Embassy in […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said the banking system would not be burdened any further as it already contributes to the Treasury and economy through taxes of over 50%. The President’s Media Division said the Governor assured that the 57 million depositors would be protected. Meanwhile, the Governor assured […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Central Bank (CBSL) governor says the banking system is excluded from the Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) process, in order to safeguard the treasury, strengthen the economy, and ensure the protection of the 57 million public and private bank deposits in Sri Lanka. Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe explained that the banking system already contributes […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana One of the world’s most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, according to two sources with knowledge of the process, pitting it against the food industry and regulators. Aspartame, used in products from Coca-Cola diet sodas to Mars’ Extra chewing […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is asking foreign investors in its international sovereign bonds to take a 30% haircut and is seeking similar concessions from holders of its other dollar-denominated bonds as it seeks to restructure its massive debt, its central bank governor said on Thursday. The government will also exchange treasury bills into long-term bonds […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed members to both the Election Commission and the Human Rights Commission (HRCSL) today. Thereby, Justice L.T.B. Dehideniya, a retired Supreme Court judge, has been selected as the chairman of HRCSL.
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